Fedora 12 on HP mini 311

I have bought a HP mini 311, which come with windows XP.
Of course, I install Fedora on top of it.

Firstly I tried with live Fedora 12 with it. But it halted during the boot.
After some googling, it’s the wireless driver, ssb causing the error. Kernel option ssb.blacklist=1 works, but not the rdblacklist=ssb. I haven’t dig out the actual cause, because updating kernel to 2.6.32 seem to fix the problem and bring the wireless driver back.

After the kernel upgrade, nearly everything is working, including the video cam (test with cheese), sound, bluetooth (can use the mobile as remote control) and SD card reader. I haven’t test the HDMI output, because I don’t have the cable.

The nouveau is working just fine, but if you are after 3D acceleration, proprietary driver also available by including rpmfusion repos and

yum install akmod-nvidia

I am mostly satisfy the performance of the laptop, but one annoying thing is that the touch pad is too easy to be touched when I am typing, which leads to unexpected windows and work spaces changes.

I’ve also tried Fedora 13, works out of the box.

Summary for for Fedora 12 on HP mini 311:

Live

Not work-out-of-box with original Fedora 12, but fixable by upgrade kernel to 2.6.32